News archive for 6th March 2019

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Guildford school stabbing: Teen arrested after pupil 'attacked with scissors' - Mirror Suspicious package at Glasgow University 'linked with those sent to London' - Mail Bristol University student found dead - the 13th to die in the city in two years - Mirror School under fire after banning football from playground over health and safety fears - The Sun Students back bailout plans for struggling universities - UCU Post-16 institutions and providers omnibus: wave 6 survey - DfE Fewer than half London's secondaries take up 'knife wands’ offer - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ofsted: How we will fail off-rolling schools in future - Times Educational Supplement | TES PRUs are not "sin bins" – but exclusions do need to be looked at - Times Educational Supplement | TES Avoid research funding cliff-edge - Russell Group MillionPlus comment on the IFS ‘Where is the money going?’ report - MillionPlus The undeniable benefits of apprenticeships - Collab Group Newcastle College staff and students celebrate expansion of free sanitary products initiative - UCU Ask your MP to attend the lobby for increased funding of maintained nursery schools - NAHT Results of indicative survey on industrial action in Northern Ireland - NAHT Vicky Blake wins UCU presidential election - UCU UCU statement in support of Nita Sanghera - UCU Our response to the NAO statement on apprenticeships - Learning & Work Institute Reflections on resilience and self-esteem in early years - Research Schools Network Sunderland university says deficit is ‘legacy issue’ - Financial Times IOE researchers ask teachers to examine grouping practices within their schools - IOE London Blog LSE research competition 2019 winners share their stories - London School of Economics | LSE Language guide challenges care system jargon - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Boy with autism left with no school to go to for 12 months - Independent If water safety knowledge was taught in schools many lives could be saved each year - PoliticsHome Close the regional attainment gap – and kick start social mobility in this country - PoliticsHome We’ve set a target of recruiting 1,000 apprentices in 2019 across bus and rail – The Go-Ahead Group - PoliticsHome Realising the social mobility promise of apprenticeships - Sutton Trust How anonymous student response systems (SRS) can empower students and support institutions - Jisc 62% of employed international graduates of Irish HEIs employed in Ireland - PIE News Raise the Rate Impact Survey - AoC's response - AoC | Association of Colleges Privacy for children in the world of oversharing - Primary Times Why do there seem to be so many school place shortages? - Independent Scots college lecturers in fresh strike over ongoing pay dispute - Scotsman Schools must promote respect and tolerance | Letters - Guardian Government Minister to teach London teens the law - GOV.UK Civil Servants join Software Developer Accelerated Apprenticeship - GOV.UK Government sets out key measures to tackle violence against women and girls - GOV.UK School gets smart makeover thanks to M6 workers - GOV.UK Using Ofsted’s IDSR: early years foundation stage profile to key stage 4 - Ofsted Secondary accountability measures (including Progress 8 and Attainment 8) - DfE Knife crime: school heads call for more money to keep children safe - Guardian School bans football from the playground over 'health and safety' fears sparking furious backlash and petition from pupils - Mail ESFA Update: 6 March 2019 - Education & Skills Funding Agency Scotland: College lecturers on strike again in pay dispute - Mail Diary of an NQT: Back from the school trip - SecEd At the chalkface: A funny tinge - SecEd Why are teachers quitting? - SecEd When priorities clash... - SecEd FSM statistics cause alarm in Wales - SecEd Safeguarding warning over the 27,000 children involved in gang activity across England - SecEd Scotland: Education secretary says there could be ‘merit’ in scrapping inspection grades - SecEd DfE pledges £6m support fund for RSE and health education - SecEd Report offers eight easy ideas to boost science teacher retention - SecEd Setting would not exist in an ideal world, says leading academic - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Fight for special needs support 'favours the middle class’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scrap England’s subject-level TEF, sector groups urge - Times Higher Education | THE IFS’ English loans report ‘builds pressure to cut tuition fees’ - Times Higher Education | THE Meet the corporate leader determined to transform careers advice - Times Educational Supplement | TES Furious MP tweets PM over early closing at son's skint school - Times Educational Supplement | TES Ready for leadership - Teacher Toolkit Apprenticeships: Here's what you need to know for 2019 - Training Journal University teaching grades invalid, statistics body says - BBC Essex University evacuated after suspicious package as bomb squad scrambled - Mirror Set the children free – show them the joy of reading for reading’s sake | Lola Okolosie - Guardian Suspicious packages sent to Glasgow University ‘linked with those sent to London’ - HuffPost Scotland: Pupils with additional needs face 'absolutely abhorrent' situation - Mail Government warns of ‘significant increase’ in cyber crime against academy trusts - Schools Week Birmingham puts council nurseries out to tender - Nursery World The baseline test won't work - just look at my kids - Times Educational Supplement | TES Send teachers on work experience to boost careers advice - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeships: Overspending but underachieving? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Too often, careers advice is treated like a grubby little secret - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: cross-subject planning boosts learning - Times Educational Supplement | TES Education is damaged by mindless obsession with testing - Times Educational Supplement | TES Council to probe suggested link between knife crime and exclusions - Times Educational Supplement | TES Busy Bees seeks 300 childcare apprentices - Nursery World Cambridge offers places only for deprived - BBC A-level courses 'cut in sixth-form funding squeeze' - BBC Scotland: Glasgow University evacuated after suspicious package found - Scotsman Gender neutral school uniforms codes are a simple way to make all children feel comfortable, confident and accepted - HuffPost New app will encourage students to vote - Jisc EPI response to NAO report on the apprenticeships programme - EPI Creative arts degrees cost taxpayers 30% more than engineering degrees - Institute for Fiscal Studies | IFS What's needed is a second wave of apprenticeship reform - CBI Council condemned for leaving boy with SEND out of education for a year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Degrees of inequality - HEPI New research to begin on boosting teacher retention - Times Educational Supplement | TES The ambiguities of knowledge, expertise and purpose - BERA Half of sixth forms cut language courses - Times Educational Supplement | TES DfE unlikely to meet apprenticeship target, says NAO - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pay gap means women in education ‘work free 95 days a year’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Should gifted students be taught in a different way? - The Educator SWERL in Suffolk: when implementation meets wellbeing - Research Schools Network AELP response to NAO report on Apprenticeships - AELP St Andrews University principal: Cap on Scottish places, not lower entry grades for the poor to blame for pupils missing out - Telegraph Scotland: Climate change strikes by pupils must have limit - Scotsman Scotland: Two thirds of deprived university applicants ‘are not disadvantaged’ - Herald Scotland Fund sector needs Whitehall changes to make apprenticeships work - Financial Times Policy Watch: IFS report on the government cost of different degrees - Wonkhe Augar should set out a new vision for tertiary education - Wonkhe Superyachts and private schools: Britain's dirty money problem - Guardian Watchdog fears apprentice scheme funding will dry up - Financial Times Poorer students who miss out on University of Cambridge place given second chance - Independent Cambridge University offers disadvantaged students second chance to apply - Guardian Creative arts degrees cost taxpayers 30% more than engineering degrees, report says - Independent Sixth forms drop languages A-levels due to 'inadequate' funding - Guardian Scotland: College lecturers walk out in third strike day over pay - Mail Schoolchildren regularly using the word 'stress', research suggests - Mail Cambridge University to take on poorer students who outdo their A-level expectations for first time - Mail Arts graduates cost the taxpayer £35,000 each, a new analysis finds - Telegraph Cambridge opens up extra places for disadvantaged students who perform better than expected in their A-levels - Telegraph Pupils given lessons in how to treat stab wounds - Times Beat A-level predictions and get second chance at Cambridge - Times Taxpayers footing average £35k bill for arts students - Times Apprenticeships have fallen substantially, says audit office - Times Scotland: Teachers’ strike a step closer as second union threatens ballot - Times Scotland: Plea to fund music lessons as poorer pupils miss out - Times Ireland: Children’s climate protests are inspiring, says Varadkar - Times